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Broken Handle

Broken Handle High-Grade Gold-Silver Project, Southern British Columbia

The Broken Handle Project is a 100%-owned, road-accessible, 2,098-hectare gold-silver and base metal property located 50 km north of Grand Forks, B.C. The project is situated just 3 km south of the historic Franklin mining camp, a prolific district that produced more than 1.39 million ounces of silver and 55,500 ounces of gold over 76 years of operation.¹

Exploration Overview

Origen recently completed a comprehensive field program that combined LiDAR mapping, ground truthing, and sampling across the property.

Key results include:

  • LiDAR survey identified over 50 potential historical workings across the property.
  • 38 previously unknown adits, shafts, trenches, and blast pits were confirmed through field verification.
  • 18 rock grab samples collected from waste piles and outcrops contained trace to massive sulphides, including pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite.
  • One newly discovered extensive adit in the northern area contained timber supports and ore cart rails, indicating substantial historical work with no known records.

Project Highlights

  • Located near the Franklin gold camp, a significant early-1900s mining centre.
  • Rediscovery of multiple historical showings, many of which had not seen exploration since the 1920s.
  • Notable prior grab sample results include:
    – Zap Showing: 23 g/t Au and 973 g/t Ag
    – Alco Showing: 7.17 g/t Au
    – Morrell Camp: 0.53 g/t Au, 363 g/t Ag and 0.62% Cu
    – C.P.R. Showing: 0.50 g/t Au, 315 g/t Ag and 1.58% Cu
    *Grab samples are selective by nature and are not necessarily representative of mineralization across the property.

Geological Setting

The Broken Handle property covers prospective geology comparable to that of the Franklin Camp, hosting two principal mineralisation styles:
• Polymetallic epithermal veins (Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu ± Au), potentially related to the regional Granby Fault.
• Skarn mineralisation (Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag-Au) in limestone and marble lenses adjacent to intrusive rocks.

Recent Program and Next Steps

The 2025 exploration program led to the discovery of new mineralised zones and the rediscovery of historical workings such as the Morrell Camp, a cluster of high-grade targets unworked since the 1920s. The new LiDAR data revealed several additional anomalies in this area that warrant follow-up investigation.

Origen now holds a 100% interest in the Broken Handle Project following the withdrawal of Prince Silver Corp. from its previous option agreement. As part of its project-generator model, Origen is evaluating strategic partnerships to advance exploration and unlock value at Broken Handle.

¹Historic production figures are from the UNION Minfile (082ENE003). These referenced deposits provide geological context only and do not necessarily indicate similar mineralisation at the Broken Handle property.

Exploration work conducted in 2018 and 2019 resulted in 44 rock samples and 741 soil samples being collected with the rock sample results ranging from <0.001 – 23.03ppm Au, <0.001 – 973ppm Ag, 0.001 – 1.58% Cu, 0.005 – 1.39% Pb and 0.003 – 4.24% Zn.  Rock samples were submitted to MSA Labs in Langley, BC and underwent a multi-element ore-grade ICP analysis with a true aqua-regia digestion.  Gold was analyzed by fire assay using a 30g fusion size with an atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) finish (FAS-111) with detection limits of 0.005-10 ppm Au. Samples assumed to contain elevated precious metals were subject to a fire assay with a 30g fusion size and a gravimetric finish (FAS-415) with detection limits of 0.05 to 1,000 ppm Au.

Exploration work in 2018 and 2019 resulted in the discovery of several new showings, and the rediscovery of old mineral workings.  The most significant achievement was locating the Morrell Camp that is series of mineralized historical workings that have not seen exploration work since the late 1920s.  A 2019 rock grab sample* from the mineralized waste pile of one shaft in the Morrell Camp assayed 0.53 g/t Au, 363 g/t Ag and 0.616% Cu.  Another rediscovered historical shaft (the C.P.R), 750m northeast from the previous sample, assayed 0.50 g/t Au, 315 g/t Ag and 1.58% Cu from a rock grab sample* and is interpreted to represent a strike extension of the workings in the Morell Camp.

All mention of the Morell Camp disappeared from written record by 1929, and Origen believes the 2019 field work is the first to examine this area in over 90 years.  Origen considers the Morell Camp to be the priority target on the Broken Handle Property as it believes the source of the high-grade gold mineralization referenced in the historical literature has yet to be identified.

There are also several other mineralized areas of note at the Project, including the rediscovered Alco 6 gold showing.  Exploration work in 2002 on a claim that included the northeast portion of the present boundary of the Broken Handle project resulted in this discovery, but it was never added into the provincial mineral database (Minfile).  The area was rediscovered in 2019, and two grab samples* collected from outcrop assayed 7.17 g/t Au and 1.06 g/t Au respectively.  An additional mineral occurrence is the Zap, a mineral showing discovered in the 1990’s and located in the southeastern portion of the claim, that returned 23 g/t Au with 973 g/t Ag from a grab sample* taken in 2019.

          Broken Handle Highlight Rock Grab Samples from Previous Work Programs

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